Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:45 PM 1/3/99 -0800, you wrote: >Lucian wrote: >snip >> The Elmarit win against the Tele-Elmarit (1974) (even if I prefer >> to use the T-E because of its size and because mine don't >> seem >> to be prone to flare). >snip > >I'm looking at page 159 of The Leica Collectors Guide by Laney and they >are showing both the first and second versions of the Tele-Elmarit 90 >five and four elements respectively. >We've been going off and on, hot and cold, love and hate on this lens >for the 3 or 4 months I have been here. Both had a filter size of 39 but >the thin second lens as 220g and the first made till '74 was 325g. I'm >willing to bet the lovers had the five element and the haters like >myself had the four element. >I'm sure the people at Leitz who scaled down that lens that unreasonably >far will all come back in another life as small unhappy rodents. >For me it was a glitch in the Leica smiley faced pie in the sky along >with the titanium paint. >We should clarify which version of the lenes we are talking about. >Mark Rabiner > Hate is a strong word. I am most disappointed with the performance of my 90 Tele-elmarit (bottom right picture of Laney's book at page 159), Wetzlar vintage. Interestingly, my collapsible 90 elmar (top left picture) which also sports 4 elements is a beaut of a lens - sharp, contrasty, and happily free from flare. Dan K.